Areas of expertise & dedication
Allison offers a refined and integrative approach to therapy, working with individuals, couples and families ages 18+ of all gender identities and sexual orientations.
Common themes of work with Allison include:
Expansion/contraction in life transitions
Re-storying identity and self-concept
Stepping towards relationship complexity and evolution
Resourcing in high-pressure careers
Nurturing the creative identity
Rest and resilience through grief, loss and death
Clinical language that may feel connected to these themes:
Trauma/ Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Body image concerns, disordered eating and/or exercise dependence
Anxiety, Depression, Mood Disorders
Rigidity, perseveration and compulsion/Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
Perfectionism
“But why can’t the language for creativity be the language of regeneration?”
Guidance through life transition
Therapy isn’t a guided path toward normalcy, nor a simplified “solution.” It’s a creative encounter with the depth of our lived experiences-the goal is not to eradicate our pain but to expand our capacity to soothe it. Easier said than done when that pain is a strained marriage, impending divorce, fertility struggles, career pressure, health challenges or death of a loved one.
Knowing the fear inherent within these catalyzing events, I offer a space where clients can explore these moments not as self-limiting detours from their preferred paths, but as chapters in a larger, evolving story where judgment is not truncating their meaning making. Our work centers on understanding these experiences deeply through a prismatic lens rather than a fixed perspective. Here, therapy begins by stepping back from the experience to allow you to actually take it in from a clearer vantage point. This process offers a more expansive and accurate view and it’s from there that we naturally begin to differentiate painful lived experiences from selfhood.
From the outset, this therapeutic work invites a soft but radical recalibration of identity: what once felt inextricably tied to self-your grief, regret, relational rupture or intellectual stasis-is not you. Rather, they emerge as distinct forces, stories framed around you, which can be named, observed, held at arm’s length and ultimately rewritten. Once our difficulties can be viewed as external, space is created for resistance and transformation where there was prior helplessness.
Alongside narrative reclamation, you’ll navigate the existential themes inherent to these life events-freedom, responsibility, mortality, isolation, and meaning-not as abstract categories, but as living dilemmas that call forth choice, revision, and poetic recommitment to your own authorship. In creating distance from shame and constriction, you reclaim curiosity; in tracing patterns with fresh eyes, you recover relational clarity; in slow embodiment, you reclaim presence beyond temporary biohacking and tool seeking.
Support for the creative identity
Therapy tailored for creative minds begins by honoring your long‑standing sense of difference-the tension found between passionate deviation from norms and the resulting isolation. This life of vision often carries a fragile balance: inspiration and burnout, perfectionism and creative paralysis. Imposter syndrome whispers that your achievements are luck, your craft inadequate, your success undeserved- these seemingly fixed narratives can be undone through careful inquiry and support. We will listen for the critical junctures where passion gives way to self‑doubt, or where ambition shifts to self‑critique and then gently disentangle them.
In this space, your creative journey unfolds as a series of evolving chapters, each with its own narrative arc. Rather than viewing challenges like burnout or self-doubt as obstacles, we recognize them as pivotal plot points that offer opportunities for growth and transformation if alchemized intentionally.
By identifying moments where you've acted contrary to the dominant problem-saturated story we uncover instances of agency and resilience that have previously been overshadowed. This process of re-authoring your story empowers you to reclaim not only your generative creative voice but also the grounded sense of Self from which it flows.